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But Ford fans will want an answer about the car’s future in Australia -- which remains a mystery.
Ford’s design chief and group vice president, J Mays, treads carefully around the subject of the Falcon’s future of a new front-wheel drive replacement based on the Taurus. “You have to wait,’‘ he says.
“It won’t be too far away,’‘ he says, speculating that the Falcon’s future may be revealed at the Geneva motor show in March 2012.
Mays unveiled the Ford Evos concept saying that elements of the four-door, four seat sports car would carry over in future models, including the ultra-slim headlights.
Ford has been juggling with how the front-drive Taurus, designed for the global market, will fit in with the Falcon in Australia. The Falcon is one of Ford’s last rear-drive platforms.
Mays and another Ford executive both confirmed that the Falcon was “important’’ to its business in Australia and assured me that “you won’t be disappointed’’ with the announcement, pegged for March.
What do you think? Will the Falcon survive as an Australian-built, rear-drive sedan or will it be pensioned off in favour of a US-designed front-drive car?
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